President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former NCUA Chairman Michael Fryzel for his transition effort at the NCUA.

Fryzel’s appointment was one of several Trump made to fill his agency “landing team members.”

Fryzel, who now runs a Chicago-based financial consulting group, served as agency chairman from 2008 to 2009, after being nominated to the board by President George W. Bush in 2007. He was chairman during the corporate credit union crisis.

Fryzel was replaced on the board by current member J. Mark McWatters in 2014. Fryzel is a former director of the Illinois Department of Financial Institutions.

 

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